Roskilde was the capital of Denmark until 1443, when Copenhagen assumed this role and its cathedral was, until the twentieth century, the only on island of Zealand. This cathedral, built between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, was the first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick, a technique that has also influenced the Gothic architecture throughout northern Europe. In Roskilde Cathedral are buried all Danish kings since the fifteenth century which wanted to add several chapels of which we see here that of Frederick V. The church, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995, each year is visited by about 125,000 people.

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